Border Patrol Agent?
December 26, 2015
I am sometimes asked what I thought of someone joining the Coast Guard or the Border Patrol instead of the military. My short answer is always that the war on drugs makes it difficult to do either in good conscience. Here is another reason why I don’t think too highly of Border Patrol agents: “I Was Locked up Because I Went to a Texas National Park without My Papers.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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